SurfSecret Privacy Protector includes a number of features which can help protect your privacy.
Erasing Traces: As per SurfSecret, the SurfSecret Privacy Protector can erase all the "footprints" left back when you use the computer so that no one else can sense what you were you doing on the computer. It claims to clean the many locations that contain the temporary files created out of the usage of different computer applications. It also says that it can remove the temporary internet files, cookies, and Google search history from both the address bar and Google toolbar! This sounds great as not many computer cleaners can remove traces of the Google toolbar's search box. It also claims to clean up the image caches.
Advanced Features: SurfSecret Privacy Protector has an inbuilt feature that helps you run it in stealth mode, which means that the program will be running in the background, removing the traces as you are working on the computer. The Stealth mode will not let others know that the program is running. Other than the Stealth mode, SurfSecret Privacy Protector also offers a shredding program that makes data retrieval almost impossible. Finally, it also offers a Boss Key Protection that lets you quickly hide an open window. This is good if you do not want any passerby to snoop on what you are doing.
With so many features, the SurfSecret Privacy Protector seems the perfect privacy protector worth using. Let us see the actual effectiveness of the program in the coming sections.
The system requirements mentioned by the SurfSecret for SurfSecret Privacy Protector are only 1 MB of RAM and less than 1 MB of HDD space on a system running MS Windows 95 or above.
Computer Used to Test SurfSecret Privacy Protector: The system I used to test the SurfSecret Privacy Protector had 512MB of RAM and 80 GB HDD space. The operating system used was MS Windows XP, Service Pack 3.
Download and Installation: Installation of SurfSecret Privacy Protector was easy. It hardly took two full minutes to install the software. It offered two options while installation. The first one was to install the software for everyone and the second one was to make it available only for the current user. As it was only for the testing purpose, I selected the “current user” option. There were no other clicks apart from this and the usual destination folder confirmation and EULA agreement. Rest of the process was automated.
Download Accelerators not Allowed? It seemed that the webpage, from where I tried to download the demo, was not allowing any Download Accelerators. I had Free Download Manager (FDM) installed on the machine. Whenever I tried to download the SurfSecret Privacy Protector using the accelerator, I found that the FDM could download only the PHP page (the webpage containing link).
Assuming that the FDM is not functioning well with the webpage, I tried to use my other laptop that had Internet Download Manager. The IDM too could download only the PHP file instead of the actual page. Coming back to the previous laptop, I disabled the FDM before I could download the software to the local HDD using the Internet Explorer’s download feature.
Note: I am not sure if it happened only to me but it seemed that the webpage for download of SurfSecret Privacy Protector was not accepting any Download Accelerators, not IDM or FDM at least. You may try using other download managers and if you also encounter the problem, you can simply turn off the download manager to use your browser's download feature. However, the problem with using a browser's download feature is that if something goes wrong, you have to re-start the download.
Let us discuss the software functions in the next page.